The first collection of volumized short stories by the author of "For You in Full Blossom" / 『花ざかりの君たちへ』 ("Hanazakari no Kimitachi e"). 1) The Dreaming Leaf (Yume Miru Happa) - Futaba (Two Leaves) departs for Tokyo to attend high school there. In order to relieve the financial burden slightly and achieve independence, she finds a live-in work situation at an old mansion. She becomes (fighting) friends with one of three good-looking fortune-telling employees there, Masato, who attends her same high school and is even in her same class. But then one day, Futaba discovers the secret of the old mansion... which is--!? 2) 17 Romance (17 [Juunana] Romansu) - Natsume, now in high school, was raised like the son her father never had, and so she's determined never to lose out to any man. Homare Misono has been her guy friend for 17 years. Despite their closeness, Natsume always feels the disadvantage her gender places her at. Homare is stronger and better than her at a lot of things. And after saving her from a pervert on the streets, he kisses her...!? 3) The Law of Couples (Futari no Housoku) - The Law of Couples states that all things happen in pairs -- including people. Sakiko seems to have found her missing half in Akio, a boy in her same class who always seems to say exactly what she's thinking. But who is she falling in love with? Akio, or the part of herself that she sees in him...? 4) 3) Heat Fruit (Haato no Kajitsu) - Meron and her best friend, Chiho, both have a crush on Uchiyama! Meron finds out after she's already told Chiho that she has a crush, so she needs to lie about who she likes in order to protect Chiho's feelings. She chooses... Ryou! The scariest, coldest guy in school, rumored to be an underground ring leader! If anyone will reject her love confession, it'll be him! It works, but then Chiho begins to cry for Meron's sake, and Meron turns to mush... she tells Chiho that she'll try harder to win Ryou's love...!? How deep is she going to dig her grave?? But... for some reason, Ryou really doesn't seem that scary to Meron...
Oshimaro is a problematic and selfish young boy who one day encounters a certain creature that would lead him to a whole new world of adventure, with friends that he will meet along his path, Oshimaro will be destined to save an ancient race called Shatins.
Chitose is a 11 year old girl. She's madly in love with an older guy that works at the town hall right next to the school, Hiroshi, and spends her days relentlessly pursuing him. Tons of slapstick follows.
This is a collection of 17 short stories that all involve coffee in some way.
Tezuka teaches about biology in short installments.
From Wingtip Cafe: 1. Rain of Love A woman. A man. Rainy day. and a flamboyant, girly umbrella. 2. Because She Was Always Watching Me 5. A Girl’s Heart Is Like a Sea - Mamiya is trying to have a “perfect” break up with her boyfriend.
From Wings of Yuri: 4-koma about a young girl attending what turns out to be an elementary school for monsters. Err…sounds like Mononoke Gakuen from Yurihime but it turns out to be quite different. Really cute and funny!
Makoto Katsuya, bumps into his grandson, Yuusuke Katsuya who came from the future Tokyo by a time machine. Yuusuke explains to Makoto and the childhood friend of Makoto, Momoka Shiroishi that he needs help to save his father who was arrested on false charges.
Aitou & Reiko are excellent detectives in handling the criminals but also often giving their superior a lot of troubles as they like to do things their way. One day, unintentionally they were involved in a bank robbery. What are they going to do in this situation? Let's find out in this one shot story. From Baka-Updates: Detectives Aitou and Reiko are reprimanded because of their unorthodox interrogation techniques, and then they walk into a bank robbery!
When he was young, Prince Takaoka had been told stories of India by Fujiwara no Yakushi, the favorite concubine of his father, as a bedtime story, and he had longed for that land. Decades later, as he grew up, he set out on an exotic, mysterious and fantastical journey to make his dream come true. A bold manga artist draws the towering mountain in the history of fantasy literature with a neat and mysterious look. A full-fledged comic adaptation.
From Shoujo Crusade: Ichino is a high school girl who absolutely hate guys due to the fact that her father betrayed them when she was young; stealing all the valuables that she & her mother possessed & disappearing without a trace. Since then she has vowed to become strong so she would not lose to any man. She has also longed for the day she could meet the lady from a fateful encounter in her childhood. One day, she accidentally beat up a guy who she mistook as a pervert pestering her friend, Miyabi. She tries to apologize but ends up beating him up even more.... She developed a distaste for the guy and two of his friends as they bump into each other once again resulting in more misunderstandings. Ichino personally believed that if she came across the same person thrice that would be considered 'fate'... Coincidentally, the start of her school begun with a surprise as she found out that all THREE of them turned out to be her new classmates !!
